SP System Map 1944

My name is Melvin Perry (Mel), I’m retired and living in Bakersfield
California

I model the SP El Paso Division in the mid 1950s.

I have been in HO
scale model railroading since 1951.

I grew up in El Paso Texas and my next
door neighbor worked for the SP, our house was a quarter mile from the El Paso
to Alamogordo New Mexico north bound tracks. I would watch the huge
Southern Pacific articulated locomotives leaving a siding going north on a 1½%
grade every morning on the way to high school. I married in 1958 and we
moved to Alamogordo in 1960, we lived there for 25 years so my layout is modeled
after the Southern New Mexico Sacramento Mountain area near Alamogordo.

My layout is L shaped 14’ x 10’ located in our garage.

We moved to
Bakersfield California in 1987 so we have lived on both ends of the Southern
Pacific Cab Forward route. I maintain a Blog on blogspot.com called My
Model Railroad. I currently have 34 active steam locomotives and 26
diesels all from the mid 1950s era. I have a single Daylight passenger
train consisting of 7 passenger cars including a home brew kitbashed SP ¾ dome
lounge car. I have limited number of freight cars; a full work train, snow
blower with a snail, self propelled 160 ton crane car, 17 log cars, and 51
miscellaneous freight cars

Here is a link to my About Me page for my back ground and a description of
my layout:

Tehachapi Loop
Scale : HO
Era : 1950
Owner: Rick Graves
Layout Location:______
Rick models the Tehachapi Loop in the spring of 1950.
His layout completely occupies a 14' x 12' spare bedroom.
The layout is DCC controlled (Digitrax) and the locomotives are sound equipped.
Rick runs run both steam and diesel appropriate to the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific motive power in use over the line at that time. One interesting and extremely well done feature of this layout is the use of shallow relief hills to duplicate the Tehachapi loop area. The hills are painted and sceniced using a shading technique which gives them depth well beyond their quarter-inch thickness. Up to five trains are staged behind the hills and in other areas to allow a parade of Southern Pacific and Santa Fe consists typical for the time modeled.
Rick’s layout was featured in Great Model Railroads 2009 published by Kalmbach Publishing Co., publisher of MODEL RAILROADER.

The
Southern Pacific Klamath Falls Sub is my attempt to recreate the SP
between Klamath Falls and Chemult as it existed in 1984.
Using track
charts, drawings and photos from the area, as well as my own memories
from when I worked for the SP, I will try and make this railroad as
prototypical as possible.

The layout is being constructed in a 20x20
foot garage attached to my home in Reno, NV. Space preparation is
currently underway and actual layout construction should begin in July,
2012

The
SP Cascade Line seeks to capture major features of the SP mainline in Oregon:
the Cascade Hill climb, major forest products industry, and a smattering of
other industry in the Willamette Valley.

The layout occupies about 2000 sqft of a walkout basement.

The layout features a modest representation
of Eugene, Springfield, the helper station of Oakridge, and the 1.8% climb up
through McCredie Springs, Wicopee, Cruzatte and Cascade Summit, terminating in
reverse loop staging at Crescent Lake.

Following final space preparation, layout construction will begin in the
Summer, 2012.

The Klamath River Line Overview

The Southern Pacific’s Klamath River branch line is a proto-lanced line
that operates from Yreka CA to Eureka CA as if this area had continued
to developed. It also includes the towns of Happy Camp and Willow Creek.
The era is October 1983. The plan started from the Red Rock and
Northern RY. that appeared in the June 2007 Model Railroader magazine as
the 2nd place design contest winner.

Yreka and Eureka are represented by staging with Yreka providing the interchange with SP mainline.

Willow
Creek and Happy Camp are the two towns modeled. Willow Creek is the
larger of the two and incorporates a small classification yard. There is
a large wood products facility in Willow Creek as the main rail
customer.

Happy Camp offers more industrial switching
opportunities of the two. There is a lumber reloader in Happy Camp and a
neighboring woodchip loader. Anderson Window & Door is the largest
rail customer represented.

The Klamath River Line is primarily
designed for one operator but provides for possible operating sessions
for up to several people.

Layout Location:
The layout is
a free standing pit style located in the corner of the garage. It was
to have 2 parts that were to be movable but the ROW committee has gotten
a ten year lease to keep it standing at all times. I mention this
because had this be the plan from the onset the construction would have
been differently. Staging would have been different too.
There
are 4 sections to the layout. The 4 sections are labeled North, South,
East and West. The North and West sections are semi permanent. The South
and East sections are movable and are mounted on wheels but see above.

The Layout contains section of the SP near Santa Barbara known as
Summerland and Fernald point. It will eventually host the Engine
facility at San Luis Obispo. It also contains a section of the Shasta
division, Shasta Springs to Cantara.
The layout sections are all sewn
together in one bookshelf style layout.

My name is Marcelo Eduardo Szkatulak Colio. I´m an Espee Spanish fan.
I have a small H0 layout about Southern Pacific called Patagonia & Black Rock.
This is a SP based layout settled in mid 1966 in the Arizona Division.
The Patagonia town actually exist and have an SP Depot Nº22 ( http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24108 ) but no Black Rock. It was taked from a picture called "Bad Day in Black Rock" (Did you see that? there was a lot SP train).
• The Layout dimensions are about 1,25 x 3 with a 2 x 0,50 extension. It have a L shape.
• Layout Height: 1100 mm to top of rails.
• Benchwork : 10 mm plywood.
• Roadbed: 6 mm foam.
• Track : Roco cod. 83.
• Scenery : Natural materials, stones and sand.
• Backdrop : Landscapes printing on self-adhesive paper over 5 mm. styrene.
Now I´m modeling the operating mode, because I´m interested in prototipical operation.
You can see my layout in http://patagoniablackrock.blogspot.com/
My rolling stocks is mainly representative of the sixties, but I have several models I like but it doesn´t run in a tipical operation journal.
For example, I´ve GP9 "Torpedo Boat" and RDC-10 for passenger trains, GP-30, GP-35, SD-9 and RSD-3 for freight and some SW1500 and SW-9 for switching cars. I will add some more when operation need it.
Joinly with an Italian and Uruguay friends called Alejandro and Miguel we are running a Yahoo group called SPRRSpanish@yahoogroups.com.
We are triing to talk about SP and his subsidiaries in spanish.

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